Is Beijing Ready for Prime Time? No Way
Sara Faith Alterman/Boston Phoenix
Boston Phoenix |
August 7, 2008
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Social Networking is Ruining Your Summernew
Warm weather is supposed to be about perching on a saggy lawn chair during a backyard barbecue, swatting at mosquitoes and waiting for a turn at the beer-pong table. Unfortunately, I find myself struggling to balance my beer between my knees and my overstocked paper plate on my thigh as I furiously poke at my BlackBerry.
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Sara Faith Alterman |
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Fetishists Are Flourishing in the Bay Statenew
Massachusetts' notorious Blue laws have chased local fetishists underground, where Spandex and spanking bunnies flourish.
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Richard Goodwin's Universal Stage Shownew
JFK speechwriter and Renaissance man Richard Goodwin explores the roots of today's religious wars by channeling 17th-century anti-hero Galileo in a play called Two Men of Florence.
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In the absence of meaningful state or federal regulation regarding post-mortem rights in cyberspace, a so-called digital death industry is booming.
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Is Net Neutrality Doomed to Failure?new
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The Rise and Uncertain Future of 'Pirate' Radio in Bostonnew
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